Hey hey, anyone here experienced with sourdough starters at all?
ʟᴜɪɢɪ👻ʙᴏᴀʀᴅ
Hey hey, anyone here experienced with sourdough starters at all?
Hey hey, anyone here experienced with sourdough starters at all?
sᴋᴜʟʟʏ ᴊ ɢʀᴀᴠᴇs
what up
Lauren
yeah I bake with sourdough regularly
ʟᴜɪɢɪ👻ʙᴏᴀʀᴅ
So my starter stinks.
ʟᴜɪɢɪ👻ʙᴏᴀʀᴅ
I've checked the blogs, and they say funky is going to happen.
Lauren
how old is it and what's your feeding method right now?
sᴋᴜʟʟʏ ᴊ ɢʀᴀᴠᴇs
what does it smell like?
ʟᴜɪɢɪ👻ʙᴏᴀʀᴅ
But it reeks. Like, cleared us out of the kitchen when we fed it today.
ʟᴜɪɢɪ👻ʙᴏᴀʀᴅ
We're doing 60 mils of unbleached flour and warm water apiece daily, throwing out half first, this is day four.
ʟᴜɪɢɪ👻ʙᴏᴀʀᴅ
God, I don't even know how to describe it.
ʟᴜɪɢɪ👻ʙᴏᴀʀᴅ
Like, I'll see if the spouse has a better description, but it's almost. Idk. Bile like? Like, an undertone of bile.
Lauren
give it time
sᴋᴜʟʟʏ ᴊ ɢʀᴀᴠᴇs
mmmmm
Lauren
day four is early and you probably have some weird stuff going on
Lauren
should settle out in a week
sᴋᴜʟʟʏ ᴊ ɢʀᴀᴠᴇs
how is your storage method?
sᴋᴜʟʟʏ ᴊ ɢʀᴀᴠᴇs
it should settle soon!
Lauren
vomit smell is common in that time period
ʟᴜɪɢɪ👻ʙᴏᴀʀᴅ
It bubbles beautifully, and looks like the texture the blog showed! But the smell, fuck, we nearly pitched it today. We have it resting in a jar that seals with a rubber??? ring, we wrap it in a kitchen towel because our house is pretty cold.
ʟᴜɪɢɪ👻ʙᴏᴀʀᴅ
Okay thank you so much, I've wanted to do this for a while, but when I think funky I think cheese, and this is way stronger than a lot of cheeses and less pleasant of a tone.
Lauren
usually it'll get extremely bubbly at that age while the bacteria and fungi fight over who's winning
ʟᴜɪɢɪ👻ʙᴏᴀʀᴅ
So basically just give it time, then?
ʟᴜɪɢɪ👻ʙᴏᴀʀᴅ
Thank you for answering!
Lauren
it'll go through another period of probably slightly less active for a bit, then eventually fix itself if you keep up what you're doing
Lauren
when it's ready it will smell either like sourdough bread (if you're familiar) or more toward vinegar sour but not vomit
ʟᴜɪɢɪ👻ʙᴏᴀʀᴅ
Yeah, thank you! That helps a lot. The blog had a lot of useful charts and info, but no one really seems to talk about how strong of a smell it could have.
Lauren
I actually do 20/20/20 with mine - keep 20 g of previous starter, add 20 g flour and 20 g water each time
sᴋᴜʟʟʏ ᴊ ɢʀᴀᴠᴇs
yup! What lauren said, the smell will gradually go away, just make sure to cover your nose/mouth when you feed it again!
ʟᴜɪɢɪ👻ʙᴏᴀʀᴅ
Yeah, I'll wear a mask next time. I just didn't expect it! Yesterday there was barely any scent.
ʟᴜɪɢɪ👻ʙᴏᴀʀᴅ
ALSO. Y'ALL. Did you name your starters?
Lauren
just bacteria thinking they're winning
Lauren
yeah lmao mine's Zuggtmoy, the DnD demon lady of fungi
ʟᴜɪɢɪ👻ʙᴏᴀʀᴅ
The one winning will be me when I get to make sourdough everything.
ʟᴜɪɢɪ👻ʙᴏᴀʀᴅ
I love it.
sᴋᴜʟʟʏ ᴊ ɢʀᴀᴠᴇs
when i had mine in school it was just called Stinkbug
ʟᴜɪɢɪ👻ʙᴏᴀʀᴅ
We named ours Karen, after the murderous emu from Useless farm on Tiktok. The final jar has a live laugh love sticker ready for the outside, because the emu has a live laugh love plaque in the pen.
ʟᴜɪɢɪ👻ʙᴏᴀʀᴅ
Stinkbug is accurate!
sᴋᴜʟʟʏ ᴊ ɢʀᴀᴠᴇs
and omg that's cute
ʟᴜɪɢɪ👻ʙᴏᴀʀᴅ
It's funny to me at least, haha. Something useful named after something decidedly considered useless.
sᴋᴜʟʟʏ ᴊ ɢʀᴀᴠᴇs
yup
ʟᴜɪɢɪ👻ʙᴏᴀʀᴅ
My starter is struggling. :C